- Gospel of Thomas, #57
As things around us seem to spiral further into chaos, there is also a sweet calm, a gentle breeze softly spreading wisdom, enlightenment, love, peace across our world. There are so many good people, kind people, generous, giving, loving people everywhere and in every religion. So many of you - us - are openhearted, loving your neighbors - even enemies - turning the other cheek, learning how to be patient as the tidal wave of this shifting age is cresting closer.
So many of you have turned off and looked away from the violence in the media, on your televisions, confronted your addictions, listened and learned from your shadow selves.
We have embraced our inner demons, our fears, our "issues," and are finding more peace in our lives.
You are the precious wheat in this parable. The seeds have been planted in your fertile souls and you labored year after year helping them to grow and today you are beautiful, radiant in your earnest intention to be more than you were or ever thought you could be.
So many of you have turned off and looked away from the violence in the media, on your televisions, confronted your addictions, listened and learned from your shadow selves.
We have embraced our inner demons, our fears, our "issues," and are finding more peace in our lives.
You are the precious wheat in this parable. The seeds have been planted in your fertile souls and you labored year after year helping them to grow and today you are beautiful, radiant in your earnest intention to be more than you were or ever thought you could be.
But, there is so much greed, violence, oppression, manipulation, fear and control also around us. Sadly, in your own pursuit of your better selves, you experienced so much pain from this darkening age. You may also have felt alone. Each and all of us have felt alone. If there is one thing you need to know it is that you are not alone. We're all in this together. We're all dealing with a shifting sense of security.
We may all wince at the falling stock market and listen to two very different campaign pitches and agree a little with one, and yet a little with the other, and wonder at what we don't know, what isn't being reported to us in our allegedly free press. We all do this. We all think the darkness is going to overcome us. We also may think that most people are like those hardened souls we see on television, in the news, and in our fear we tighten up our vigilance over our homes, cars and children. But, that is a fallacy the dark forces would like us to believe in and thereby be crippled in fear. Most of us are very good and kind people. We can trust each other.
We may all wince at the falling stock market and listen to two very different campaign pitches and agree a little with one, and yet a little with the other, and wonder at what we don't know, what isn't being reported to us in our allegedly free press. We all do this. We all think the darkness is going to overcome us. We also may think that most people are like those hardened souls we see on television, in the news, and in our fear we tighten up our vigilance over our homes, cars and children. But, that is a fallacy the dark forces would like us to believe in and thereby be crippled in fear. Most of us are very good and kind people. We can trust each other.
I talk to "strangers" every day as if they are my best friends and I've discovered that most people are alike.We love our lives, our children, our spouses, our pets, our homes, our communities and wonder about the huge global changes occurring right before our eyes. We all worry and we all strive to be better.
As I consider what's going on, it seems we are finding a great chasm splitting our world, between the dark and the light. While I have called for less polarization politically - between "conservative and liberal," between Democrat and Republican, I continue to see a greater disparity among us. The bad are getting worse, and the good are getting even better.
There are those who still think God is going to punish us for our sins and there are those who smile at that, and remember that our all-loving, all merciful creator does not punish. There is no hell, or burning place. There is only a place of light, swelling into greater and greater light. We have to live among those who don't understand this, who still lumber along in a dark age, reacting, and stealing soul-light from others because their old fear-based, externally focused world paradigm, steeped in a crime and punishment perspective, is cracking open threatening - they think - their very survival.
They lunge outwardly at phantoms they cannot see, nor are there, but are rising up from within them, as only dark illusory, unconscious, unrealized memories can. They are the sad victims of an ancient lie that has stalked mankind from forever. They are who we all must love until they see this and calmly embrace their own inner child, their real Self who awaits them from within. They are everywhere, the seeds of hate and violence were planted in them by conveyors of that ancient lie and they, either in innocence or in well meaning, embraced the lie and are now afraid to let it go. But, they must. We all must open our hearts, love ourselves enough to step gingerly out there into our new vision for our world and our future, which awaits us so bright with promise.
The divine is calling us all to awaken to what is real and eternal, to a place, a dimension of reality which is encountered within our own holy, sacred Self which is - and always has been - in perfect comm-union with God, Allah, or Divine Presence and which, who, permeates the entire universe, pulsing with love, creative power, and life.
We have to live alongside them, moving in the wind with them, but not just tolerate them, rather love them as much as possible and with dignity and grace and honest intention because that is who we are, not because that is what they deserve. We have to continue to walk the way of the cross, to use Christian language, carry on being who we know we want to be - people of love, of light, of wisdom, of power, in solidarity with all that is, reaching for a more beautiful age that is surfing alongside the tidal wave that will wash away the fear-based, oppressive powers that are co-mingling among us.
There are those who still think God is going to punish us for our sins and there are those who smile at that, and remember that our all-loving, all merciful creator does not punish. There is no hell, or burning place. There is only a place of light, swelling into greater and greater light. We have to live among those who don't understand this, who still lumber along in a dark age, reacting, and stealing soul-light from others because their old fear-based, externally focused world paradigm, steeped in a crime and punishment perspective, is cracking open threatening - they think - their very survival.
They lunge outwardly at phantoms they cannot see, nor are there, but are rising up from within them, as only dark illusory, unconscious, unrealized memories can. They are the sad victims of an ancient lie that has stalked mankind from forever. They are who we all must love until they see this and calmly embrace their own inner child, their real Self who awaits them from within. They are everywhere, the seeds of hate and violence were planted in them by conveyors of that ancient lie and they, either in innocence or in well meaning, embraced the lie and are now afraid to let it go. But, they must. We all must open our hearts, love ourselves enough to step gingerly out there into our new vision for our world and our future, which awaits us so bright with promise.
The divine is calling us all to awaken to what is real and eternal, to a place, a dimension of reality which is encountered within our own holy, sacred Self which is - and always has been - in perfect comm-union with God, Allah, or Divine Presence and which, who, permeates the entire universe, pulsing with love, creative power, and life.
We have to live alongside them, moving in the wind with them, but not just tolerate them, rather love them as much as possible and with dignity and grace and honest intention because that is who we are, not because that is what they deserve. We have to continue to walk the way of the cross, to use Christian language, carry on being who we know we want to be - people of love, of light, of wisdom, of power, in solidarity with all that is, reaching for a more beautiful age that is surfing alongside the tidal wave that will wash away the fear-based, oppressive powers that are co-mingling among us.
It's not going to be easy. We always knew this. You may feel alone. Maybe you may think that you are suffering more than others, or hopefully you are thanking God every moment of every day that you have a roof over your head, food in the fridge, clothes and a job that pays the rent or the mortgage. You have to know that you are not alone. We have to now, more than any other time in our history, stand together knowing that we are not alone - we have each other - and we can join forces with that knowledge - that we are all here and we are strong.
If the dark forces have any consciousness at all - which I doubt - they would lead you to think that you are alone, and thereby diminish our collective power by alienating us from each other. It is trying to freeze us out, frighten us into submission, steal our light and life. Through fear our faith shrivels, and in that divided state, the goodness that we all are - and we all are good - will dim. With the awareness that we are all together in this challenge to continue to have faith and believe in a better age, a more earth-friendly world, a more loving and empowering culture, it will grow until it spreads, like the morning sunshine, across our world.
We are all in this field together and we have to remember that a bright and beautiful new age is coming and it is full of all the promises we have believed in. No matter how hard it gets, remember that you are not alone.
Have courage; keep on "keeping on," stand tall in your growing faith for the goodness, for the dignity of every one, because your own light cannot be dimmed and the goodness of your own soul which you have worked hard to evolve and grow up even among the weeds which are also sprouting in this violent, fear-based world, is indestructible, eternal and radiantly visible to those dear messengers from heaven who are here to help us, invisibly, as we continue onward. Stay the course, with joy and peace and love.We are all together and with that awareness alone, we join our hearts, our minds, and our light.
If the dark forces have any consciousness at all - which I doubt - they would lead you to think that you are alone, and thereby diminish our collective power by alienating us from each other. It is trying to freeze us out, frighten us into submission, steal our light and life. Through fear our faith shrivels, and in that divided state, the goodness that we all are - and we all are good - will dim. With the awareness that we are all together in this challenge to continue to have faith and believe in a better age, a more earth-friendly world, a more loving and empowering culture, it will grow until it spreads, like the morning sunshine, across our world.
We are all in this field together and we have to remember that a bright and beautiful new age is coming and it is full of all the promises we have believed in. No matter how hard it gets, remember that you are not alone.
Have courage; keep on "keeping on," stand tall in your growing faith for the goodness, for the dignity of every one, because your own light cannot be dimmed and the goodness of your own soul which you have worked hard to evolve and grow up even among the weeds which are also sprouting in this violent, fear-based world, is indestructible, eternal and radiantly visible to those dear messengers from heaven who are here to help us, invisibly, as we continue onward. Stay the course, with joy and peace and love.We are all together and with that awareness alone, we join our hearts, our minds, and our light.
VK,
ReplyDeleteFantastic. You insights get better with every blog that you write. The problem is taht those who should read them don't and those with whom I want to share them with can't.
Peace be onto you.